The first organization to partner with Bodyscapes was the Women’s Cancer Resource Center of Oakland, CA. Annually for four years WCRC gave its members, all women living with or surviving cancer, the opportunity to explore their challenges and frailties, strengths and triumphs, and then to transform themselves from victims to interpreters of the deeper meanings of encountering illness, for the benefit of families, friends and community. Annual art exhibitions culminated in a four-year retrospective show at WCRC’s brand new Berkeley building.

Funded by The Lloyd Symington, a small family nonprofit, serves the cancer community by supporting visionary individuals and spiritually grounded programs which offer healing at every level.

Enormous gratitude and love to The Symington Foundation (LSF). Back in 2014, the Red & Orange House was basically an unknown non-profit organization. No public Bodyscapes Healing Arts Workshops had ever been conducted. No Bodyscapes art catalogs had ever been produced. No Bodyscapes Drawing What Ails Us art exhibitions installed nor any opening night receptions hosted. ROH had only conducted 35 free workshops to my friends and family. Workshops conducted on the dining room table in  my apartment. 

Over four years, LSF guided, encouraged and challenged me to add new elements to Bodyscapes. My present and future capacity to love and give forth my passion for healing through art is now as solid as the rock upon which my Red & Orange House sits. (See logo) In this frighteningly politicized country we find ourselves living in, I am more honored than ever that LSF helped me develop my curriculum and arts activism to serve the marginalized communities now and in the future.